In this volume, the authors have provided an extremely useful, lucid, symptom-focused guide to the psychodynamic psychotherapy of depression. It translates, for therapists, clearly enunciated, central dynamics of depression into timely recommendations for interventions. A central feature is the admonition that depressed patients in particular are in need of clear, rapid interventions. This reflects this reviewer's experience that these patients may discontinue psychoanalytically oriented treatment because they view a therapist's wait-and-see approach as an unhelpful and intolerable cat-and-mouse game. These patients are, to varying degrees, immobilized by self-blame, the hallmark of depression, and all too easily